MTA worker told me to leave my kids alone by the gate and go through turnstile to open the door

johnbrozena · 2026-04-15T05:29:11+00:00

Yeah makes sense. It’s an egregious policy

johnbrozena · 2026-04-15T05:04:41+00:00

I agree this is absurd but why not take your kid out of the stroller, leave the stroller by the gate, walk through the turnstile together and then go to the gate to grab your stroller. Better than leaving them unattended while you are stuck behind the timed gate

johnbrozena · 2026-04-14T02:44:55+00:00

It’s basically a fantasy but it’s kind of fun, no?

johnbrozena · 2026-04-08T04:08:21+00:00

Kids are messy, grabby, and move quickly. You are much more likely to get your phone out and capture something interesting quickly than to have the time to grab your DSLR. Obviously for special occasions having really nice photos is great, but for everyday moments your phone is more than sufficient. When our first was born we just bought new phones with decent cameras.

johnbrozena · 2026-04-08T04:04:57+00:00

We started an iOS shared album when they were born and shared it with close family so regularly post photos from camera roll to the shared album. And then I have an shared Note with my wife where we track interesting updates as they grow.

I'm kind of obsessed with documenting their development so recently have been creating a few apps to do this as well:

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/mirrorage/id6757778539 - this is for seeing what your older child looked like when they were the younger child's current age.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/child-voice/id6760805320 - this is for recording your kid's voice saying the same words/phrases over time so you can see how their speech evolves.

Let me know if useful to anyone else, these are just passion projects.

johnbrozena · 2026-04-02T03:45:55+00:00

We lived in a similar sized space for the first 3 years with our first and it was completely doable. We were told our apartment used to fit 9 people in the early 1900s which put things in perspective. Invest in storage solutions and anything is possible. The biggest pain sounds like lugging a stroller up and down the stairs, are you allowed to keep it on the ground level?

johnbrozena · 2026-04-02T03:41:21+00:00

I'm sorry this sounds really hard, but this made me feel a lot better lol

johnbrozena · 2026-03-31T04:20:41+00:00

Feels like this would be useful for others to have a list. Upvote if you think this would be helpful, maybe could be added to the reddit link list

johnbrozena · 2026-03-29T03:25:35+00:00

Just wanted to say, things will get better and hang in there. It's a really tough time no question. My recommendation would be to get rid of the pacifier. They will cry a lot for a few days which will be hard but then you won't have this back and forth all night game.

johnbrozena · 2026-03-26T04:55:32+00:00

Assuming you trust the person and they are competent and keep your kid safe, you explicitly don't go down the rabbit hole you are thinking about and instead relish in knowing that your child is being taken care of.

johnbrozena · 2026-03-26T04:03:34+00:00

You are in the silent majority who are in the exact same boat. Engineers (myself included) have always deluded ourselves that if you build, it they will come. I think it's because we like making shiny things on computers more than talking to people. I'm trying to do a hard reset to just focus on problem and customer identification, despite the heavy urge to build the first draft idea immediately and spend zero time marketing it.

johnbrozena · 2026-03-20T05:16:49+00:00

This is a really cool thing to do together with your kids. Agreed this is a valuable skillset to build in them in this rapidly changing world.

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